Most generalizations are harmful if stated as an absolute, whether positive or negative. For example, "All therapy sucks" or "Meds never helped anyone."

Instead, we'd ask a member to say, "I've never experienced good therapy with any of the therapists I've tried" or "I've yet to find a med that's worked for me."

People react more to negative generalizations than positive ones, but they can as readily react to positive generalizations in the same way. I'd counsel folks to try and avoid the use of any generalizations whenever possible online, in any forum.

You, like any member here, are welcomed to offer any advice you'd like to anyone you'd like. But we can't control other members' reactions, if they are expressed in a manner in keeping with the community guidelines. If you feel someone's response to another member fails to live up to the community guidelines, we ask that you use the report function to report it to the community support team so that action may be taken.

I'm not sure how much more we can answer the OP's original question/concern. As I've always said, the community -- or a specific forum -- is what the members choose to make of it. We only provide a safe and supportive structure to do so, and then enforce that structure through the community guidelines.

DocJohn